Award-winning journalist Felicity Green OBE, who first championed the Laura Ashley look more than 40 years ago, is to officially open the first major retrospective of the designer at Bath’s Fashion Museum. Ms Green, the Daily Mirror’s fashion editor as well as associate in 1970, described the Laura Ashley style as ‘soft-core femininity’ and ‘Victorian-type...
We thought BrandSoup was alone in having opinions about the advisability or otherwise of government agencies getting “creative” with logos (see our recent blog – Bonfire of the Quango Logos). But following revelations of the US NSA’s acquisitive attitude to everyone’s emails and Facebook postings, this thorny topic is now global headline news. The...
Chippenham Pit Stop, the motorway services close to M4 junction 17, has re-launched its customer loyalty scheme and completely re-designed its on-site point of sale and digital marketing strategy. Swindon-based agency Jazzbones Creative worked closely with Pit Stop management, stripping the company’s philosophy down to its essentials to create a new campaign using the...
Hotels and tourist attractions in Bath are hoping to benefit from a boost in visitor numbers from Germany when a new drama filmed in the city is broadcast on German TV’s prime Sunday night slot. London and Munich-based production company Gate TV, which specialises in dramas for British and German audiences, has been filming...
Businesses from across the region are being given an opportunity to get out of the office and network, entertain clients and have some fun at Bath Racecourse. The first Business Raceday at the Lansdown course, on July 16, is hosted by Swindon communications group Excalibur in association with Bath Business News and what’s-on website...
Lane House Arts has opened its first permanent gallery in Bath, with a commitment to encourage and support local artistic endeavour. The gallery, in Nelson Place East at the top of Walcot Street, specialises in contemporary art, ceramics, sculpture and prints selected by director Jenny Pollitt for their quality and originality. Lane House Arts...
Bath-based creative firm The Agency has completed a 12-month period of unprecedented growth, with its latest set of filed accounts showing turnover rose by 30% and gross profit by 36% in the period ending January 2013. Since then The Agency has continued its rapid expansion with record-breaking first quarter results, and three further account...
Businesses are being invited to support a festival that will bring an impressive array of international writing talent to Bath and Bristol later this month. A dozen of the best writers and performance poets from across the African Diaspora will take part in the Yardstick Festival from June 27 to 30. Prestigious authors at the...
Following the success of the inaugural South West PA of the Year Awards last year, Bristol Business News and its sister titles including the recently-launched WestBusinessNews magazine, have again teamed up with prestigious Ston Easton Park Hotel, near Bath, to stage the South West PA of the Year Awards 2013. PAs are often the...
Bath-based landscape architects Grant Associates have been appointed by the Royal Botanics and Domain Trust in Sydney to help develop a new sustainable masterplan for the city’s historic Royal Botanic Garden. The practice Grant Associates will be responsible for developing the landscape strategy and public realm elements of the new masterplan for the site,...
